In most cases, between staring smoking and the moment when the smoker decides for the first time something is wrong, 10 to 20 years pass. If the first cigarette was smoked, for a period of two or three months the daily cigarette amount won’t go over 5. But in time smoking become more frequent and more pleasurable, slowly turning into a habit.
Smoking is indeed a habit. And by this we understand an individual dependency earned by repeating frequently the same actions or a particular way of doing something.
There are other habits we have, but we can not compare them to smoking, because smoking is a real danger to our health. If you only browse through the available smoking materials over the internet, you will still understand that someone who smokes for 20 years will live a lot less that a person of the same age who never smoked. Most smoker will have cancer in the end, or will have certain heart or respiratory problems after they turn 50. Because these diseases take time to appear, when they do it’s already too late to quit smoking by will, because you have already been dependent to nicotine for a long time.
It’s clear that to causes of smoking is a lot harder than starting. This happens because you become dependent in less than 6 months. The nicotine contained by every cigarette we smoke is the active dependency agent. Nicotine dependency shows a few distinctive factors: the many tries of quitting without success, the need for a cigarette which growth with every month and the mental need of happiness, which can be produced by nicotine. Nicotine has a discrete euphonizing effect on our mind, and smokers become more stimulated, more happy and can even prove better concentration once they’ve finished a cigarette.
It shouldn’t matter how much nicotine can pleasure or help us at a certain moment, because it is a drug after all, a drug that damages undeniably our health. Since nicotine is a powerful addictive agent, like cocaine or heroine, nicotine dependency is very hard to beat. Next to nicotine we also breathe substances similar to those used to gas people to death during the second world war, so to hypnosis to quit smoking is a must for everyone.
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